World Conference of the Millennium of al-Shaykh al-Mufid

The World Conference of the Millennium of al-Shaykh al-Mufid was a scholarly and cultural event held on the occasion of a millennium after the demise of al-Shaykh al-Mufid in Shawwal 1413, April 1993 in the Islamic Seminary of Qom. In the conference, views of al-Shaykh al-Mufid concerning theology, jurisprudence, history, and hadiths, as well as features of his period, were discussed and debated.

Al-Shaykh al-Mufid

Main article: Al-Shaykh al-Mufid

Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad b. Muhammad b. Nu'man, known as al-Shaykh al-Mufid and Ibn al-Mu'allim (d. 413/1022), was a prominent Imami Shiite theologian and jurist.

The Conference Organization

The World Conference of the Millennium of al-Shaykh al-Mufid was held on days of the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq (a) from April 17 to April 19, 1993 (Shawwal 24-26, 1413) in High Educational and Legal School of the Seminarians of Qom in Qom under the chairmanship of Ayatollah Ustadi and with a message from Ayatollah Khamenei. Over 250 scholarly figures from twenty-three countries in the world attended the conference, and views of al-Shaykh al-Mufid concerning theology, jurisprudence, history, and hadith as well as features of his period were debated by many scholars, researchers, and professors of Islamic seminaries and universities, and a number of papers were presented.

List of Papers

Here is a list of papers for the Conference of the Millennium of al-Shaykh al-Mufid, which were published in dozens of volumes:

• Imamate (5 papers)

• The Qur'an and Quranic sciences (12 papers)

• The Revelation and Knowledge of the Unseen (6 papers)

• Ghuluww (exaggeration about Imams) and the Inadvertence of the Prophet (s) (5 papers)

• Al-Shaykh al-Mufid and al-Shaykh al-Saduq (3 papers)

• Debates (4 papers)

• Wilayat al-faqih (Guardianship of the Jurist) and al-Shaykh al-Mufid (7 papers)

• Soul and spirit (7 papers)

• Jurisprudence and jurisprudential issues (16 papers)

• Usul al-fiqh (principles of jurisprudence) and its issues (9 papers)

• History (13 papers)

• Hadith and hadith sciences (3 papers)

• The Shi'a and the Mu'tazila (10 papers)

• Al-Mufid's biography (10 papers)

• Al-Mufid's bibliography (8 papers)

• Miscellaneous issues of Theology (20 papers)

• Miscellaneous papers (10 papers)

See Also

• List of Works of al-Shaykh al-Mufid

References

• The material for this article is mainly taken from کنگره جهانی هزاره شیخ مفید in Farsi WikiShia.